the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report. would be so much brighter if you live. from the finest impression. starts on t.v. dot com. tonight tis the season to go button ding as britain's sales spree begins we look at exactly who is pocketing the profit. careless candidate to run one of the country's making

a dangerous move following washington in taking a regular militant group off the terror list. and damascus blames terrorists for killing twenty one pleading children in the north where the rebels accuse the regime but this seems to be no clear picture behind the mutual finger pointing. by their very good even chief you just joined us live from the r.t. new central eleven moscow time it's kevin i would here tonight our top story britain's bargain hunters are out in force with shops reporting record boxing day takings both in store and online now the shoppers then are keeping the u.k. stills ringing you might be surprised to know who pockets a big lied. and to find out. proud to be british brits interests

alike often pay for their quintessentially british experience says on aware that they're run by foreign companies harrods the dorchester hotel and even the queen's grocer fortnum and mason keeping the fortnum and mason is a british store. is it not. it's been here for ages so i assumed it was wholly owned by british people. never mind everything's not there now you know the reason that things are getting. almost half the companies in the u.k. and now in foreign hands the coalition government in britain likes to talk about the march of the makers can have a march of the makers if we're selling of all that is good household names like boot the chemist chocolate and weetabix cereal have all been gobbled up by foreign corporations your traditional bacon butty hardly imaginable without h.p.

source the name stands for houses of parliament the label even has westminster on it but the white house might be more fitting h.p. now belongs to heinz and as you're spreading your hartley's jam or your son pat peanut butter over your morning toast you might be surprised to learn that these british brands were just bought up by another american company in fact even thames water which comes out of every single tap in and around london now belongs to an australian company advocates of foreign takeovers say they inject much needed cash into the british economy recently with premier foods not only selling off. pickle selling off hartley's just. some peanut butter and also closing down some of their home. and you know it's interesting what's the reaction analysts say great news for investors although it is bleak news just before christmas. as for the workforce two

years ago kraft the u.s. food giant swallowed up cadbury's chocolate it was a hostile takeover they slashed four hundred jobs and moved production to poland in the process but there are those that say that the loss of sweets is the least of britain's problems and the loss of control over ports to in this country and around the world where we have a huge network of of good international ports i think is a very serious matter the loss of control over our airports the loss of control particularly over our energy companies which means decisions about our energy could control in supply and not made in london there maybe in paris and in berlin or overseas tax havens such as in switzerland when companies take over they often move their headquarters away from the u.k. or look for better advantages in terms of the tax system a good example of the chemist which was a company with a head office in nottingham for one hundred sixty one years and moved in

switzerland where we had revenues of around eighty nine million pounds in corporation tax and they reduced that then to nine million so burden is then placed on the u.k. tax payer increases in income tax of the eighty or other forms of taxation it has to be found and we're the ones paying for it other nations government scrutinize every overseas bed france for example argues that it's in their national interest to prevent key technologies falling into foreign hands so while it's often difficult for a british company to buy abroad over thirty billion pounds worth of domestic companies made their way into foreign hands last year last month westminster said that it wouldn't change any laws but would take a greater interest in foreign acquisition the only thing is by the time they get around to it there might be nothing left to sell poly boy art see london. warning keller this made a dangerous move by taking

a notorious a rainy and militant group off the terror list colors following a similar move by the us except that the. has renounced violence and wants a peaceful regime change in iran where for national looks at the organizations record and is from some reigning in this who are wary of the getting wising it mohammed shows me his box of handmade treasures earrings pendants all made from stone the only material he could find in the prison yard. michel martin this is how we killed time and the pain from the torture and hunger i still get headaches when i remember this talking about the admission valley iranian soldier mohammad spent eighteen years in an iraqi jail during the one thousand nine hundred eighty s. iran iraq war he says he would have been freed earlier if he joined the ek image he didn't help to realize the militant revolutionary group was fighting iran in authority on the side of saddam hussein and recruiting new members among prisoners but mohamed refused either they were terrorists killing innocent people i couldn't

have anything to do with them i betray my country then the group indeed had a very gory history in the one nine hundred sixty s. it started a bombing campaign against iran's shar and his allies they were linked to the killing of american citizens and welcomed the us embassy siege in teheran openly calling for the execution of the hostages. the terror continued after these lawmakers evolution with the assimilation of the country's president prime minister along with many politicians and clerics with generous support from hussein it fought hard in iran as well as saddam's enemies inside iraq in one nine hundred ninety seven and make a joint america's least of terrorist organizations along with al qaeda and hamas and was cited in arguments for the invasion of iraq today iran iraq still view ek as terrorist group but america's position has now flipped any case as a ranch democratic ah this is just part of the large scale and successful lobby to

get and make a off the terror least among backers former white house officials army generals and cia chiefs clint extremely disturbing this is a this is this at the time was a terrorist group they were supposed to be paying officials and moving money around and yet somebody was turning a blind eye to that i think that anything potentially is going to have an influence on the u.s. policy towards iran and could get us into a very dangerous position as far as potentially going to war with iraq iranian officials second that saying we came a place similar role that america back to position forces played in regime change in libya and in the current conflict in syria the main support of this terrorist groups or mr carter's because they use from that through to acts is through political means. new yorker reporter in his article called our men in iran reveals how members of em ek were trained by america's joint special

operations command in a camp in nevada one one this is part of an anteroom policy sanctions on iran a strong but they don't seem to work very well america started using inside agents to destabilize the country and they're using terrorism as a tool and out of those questionable ties between israel and iran according to america's n.b.c. network and named u.s. officials confirmed and weak a was involved in the assassination of a number of iranian nuclear scientists backed by israeli intelligence service my son by israel secret service this quaint tehran is named after a pair of it's a man iranian nuclear scientist killed in his own car this area known as midan job is a very popular and vibrant place many people pass through here while heading to the mountains resort how to fight terror on an ideal location to remind people about something that shouldn't be forgotten or forgiven. mohammad says and make

a recognized as a democratic alternative to rein in authorities feel so real to him that. nothing's changed they are terrorist tactics may be changed but still the west uses it to get information to get what they want. and the terrorists he says is likely to keep his brutal ways to move. from iran syria leaders claim terrorist groups about the deadly shelling in northern syria earlier opposition activists said the attack that killed twenty with at least eight sort of children was carried out by government forces in the province the scene fighting escalates in recent months a middle east correspondent for the latest. damascus has announced that it is terrorist groups who are behind this deadly massacre in the northern province of raka what we do know is that at least twenty people have been killed eight of them are children now they were early reports by activist groups that it was in fact government forces who were behind this deadly shelling but that sense has been

refuted one of the main groups to come to the fore is a u.k. based activist group known as the syrian observateur for human rights the pictures are currently witnessing are pictures that they are distributing on you tube they cannot be verified of the point has been made by the russian foreign ministry that this was a group that relies on some two people and so these kind of reports need to be taken with a pinch of salt and we constantly hear reports coming out of syria with each side accusing the other of perpetrating calamities indeed what we've witnessing happening in syria is a new view of what is a misinformation more that is increasingly difficult to verify been hearing now for several days the rebel fighters in syria claiming that assad's forces are using chemical weapons on them what they saying is that the injuries that civilians are coming forward with injuries that do point to some kind of exposure to a poisonous gas that they're consistent with those kind of injuries the fact is

though that they need to be a lot of question marks around this now we all know that israel is no friend of syria but we are hearing from the israeli vice prime minister who was casting doubt over these claims by the rebel fighters moshe ya'alon the israeli vice prime minister said that this is not the first time that there has been such claims made by little fighters and he has made the point that the opposition in syria has a vested interest in making such claims as a way of getting foreign military intervention he also says that there is no proof for any kind of confirmation that indeed assad's forces are using chemical weapons now. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has also made the point that the chemical weaponry within syria is being contained we have been receiving reports that it has moved to two locations what we witnessing again here is the continuation of this misinformation war the fighting in syria continues to

intensify we are likely to continue to fear such kind of a course in the coming days and certainly we will do our best to try and verify the sources. afghanistan's losing tens of millions of dollars in tax in the foreign ministries finger is only a nato leg so dodging the jews because the country relies on alliances protection we talk about the very same tonight and r.t. recalls the major eventual for the twelve as well as we take a close look at the u.s. presidential race to start the car that it's sidelined by the main news outlets but we get them on air more than just. under guard these men and women a week in one of the longest and probably the loneliest road in the world reacting march into exile made by thousands and czarist russia. if i was here three hundred

years ago i may have disappeared my local lord i may have deserted from the army or a variety of other crimes the result was the same like my fellow prisoners around me i've got a long and very cold walk ahead into exile in siberia yet it took them years to get there summers and winters entire years a lot of people died on the way this group in the western siberian region of omsk discovered they're living on the only surviving stretch of the original nine thousand kilometers of the siberian exiles track that's had no modern changes made to it yevgeny discovered that he's descended from some of these exiles and decided to build a museum telling a story he and his reactors now receive interest from all over the world to show them what it was like when these two are you going to stop it's scary to put the shackles on of course but it's interesting if we don't remember our history we will have no future we want is

a monument to one of the czarist russia cruelest chapters. the city served as the capital of anticommunist white russian leader admiral kolchak in the civil war from one thousand nine hundred to nine hundred ninety whilst in residence he lived here though the study of the man like the maintenance of this building has remained a taboo right up until the present day. we still receive hate mail saying that he hanged a lot of people and was famous for severe punishment it's all true but it was at a time of civil war both sides were monstrously cruel it is sadly the theme of cruelty which links so much of history to the rest of russia's particularly of exile where they were an apple or a criminal. please speak or language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's

all here on our team reporting from the world talks about the v.o.i.p. interview intriguing story for you. t arabic to find out more visit arabic t.v. dot com. if you. believe. this is our take the afghan foreign ministry says the country's lost over seventy

million dollars in taxes foreign firms linked to nato are avoiding paying their dues the report says tax dodges rely on the u.s. led bloc to pressure kabul into staying off the backs political analyst and former afghan m.p. daoud sultanzoy says afghanistan's trapped in a vicious circle of corruption perpetrated by both locals and foreigners. what was going on in two thousand and one two thousand and two when the interim authority came to existence in this country they signed deals exempting some of these companies who were dealing with need to and i south and then under that umbrella many other companies came and started. carpetbagging and backpacking. illegitimate gains and they never paid taxes this is not new and this government will never have the guts to collect taxes from those rogue companies just an aviation alone. there are dozens and dozens of companies who are bringing passengers and cargo to

this country and who are bringing other goods and they have never paid any taxes they've never paid even landing fees in some cases they have been paid over flight fees this is just aviation and you can imagine in other fields of commerce in and fuel and transportation and logistics and security in other arenas in all areas there are hundreds of millions of dollars every year there are scaping and this government also sometimes gives them some reprieve by reducing their taxes and exchange for bribes. as a warning to israel that if settlement expansion is a threat to peace in the two state solution with the palestinians israel's most recent announcement of twelve hundred more homes in east jerusalem brings the total number of housing units now planned in the past few weeks to five an hour thousand these are illegal under international law but around half a million people already live in israeli settlements peace campaigner ron pundak

told me their fate and the expansion of homes become political bargaining chip. settlements is definitely within the vocabulary of talking into the center right voters so i believe that between now and twenty second of january we'll see only elevation of the discourse from the prime minister and around on the issue of settlements i hope that those will stay only messages which are connected to elections and not reality and practices on the ground of the five hundred thousand are being divided at all two hundred thousand with the in jerusalem and there is a total agreement with the palestinian side in the negotiations in the past that all the two hundred will stay inside is why we agreed delineate the borders of jews then we have the three hundred thousand in the west bank those approximately two hundred thousand out of them which are living very close that just sent to the green line would become part of is well within the exchange of territories and

there is a minority of approximately eighty to one hundred thousand israelis which will have to be evacuated as happened in two thousand and five with our previous government offered schoener in which israel evacuated approximately ten thousand which was just a good example for the fact that we can make it so if between us and peace will be standing one hundred thousand is where it's which will have to go and be accepted and we'll be. compensated etc i believe that this is something which goes within the national interest of the majority of israelis based campaigner ron pundak told me earlier on there. a movie about a summer billard was violent demise a spook the cia want to website would tell you why america's intelligence community was so worried by what they saw they want to consider the drama not a documentary of what really happened. that life could be sustained on mars thanks to bacteria from siberia you get the science on the story the back

story at r.t. . russia's upper house of parliament has approved a ban on u.s. citizens adopting russian children the draft laws in response to washington's magnitsky act which bans entry and freezes assets on russian officials allegedly involved in human rights violations a dog should restrictions got unanimous backing in the chamber it now needs presidential approval to become law the act is named after the make of live a two year old russian boy who died after his adoptive u.s. father left him in a car on a hot day will make you say targets america's lax treatment towards those who let russian children suffer but critics claim the move deprives thousands of orphans of a chance of finding a loving family. twenty one minutes past eleven at night moscow time more world news now in brief for you and thousands of iraqis have rallied against the shiite led government there demanding more protection rights for sonny's protesters accuse

leaders of trying to marginalize them in drawing the country disappear in conflict it's the third major protest in less than a week since the arrest of ten bodyguards of a senior so the official the community launched an insurgency in iraq after the two thousand and three u.s. led invasion brought the shiite majority to. a suicide attack or try to blow up a u.s. military outpost in afghanistan of killed at least three people left seven more injured guards opened fire on a minibus packed with bombs with the vehicle exploding before reaching the entrance of the camp chapman compound the taliban says it was targeting local police working for the americans there forty one people including six u.s. troops have died in attacks this year in the volatile city is near the pakistan border. with a new year nearly with this artie's taking stock s'more of the events which shaped twenty twelve right there we're looking at coverage of the u.s. presidential debates and the struggle for those candidates who didn't have multibillion dollar campaigns they also get

a voice. we have been running the election of close to your ears for more than two weeks before the election every single day there was a story by a correspondent running wild guests on the show and cetera et cetera still given voice through the third parties was exactly what we needed to get the full picture . we are just a couple hours away now from the third party debate as you can see our production crew is busy transforming our studio in a debate floor one of the most important functions of democracy is to have a debate a lot of discussion about a lot of issues and the more we can open up don't credit institutions like our are awash in systems in which

a multiple party to what it might even be considered fringe parties more likely we are to have an open honest debate on a wide variety of issues rather than a very narrow people often ask why is it a tool for soirees what you know of the right heads in the country to compete when they don't have to explain that there are other voices but that they are pushed out of the process because they're not part of the big party machine and on foreign policy for example the alternative candidates have clearly been against military intervention is against military expansion that will fly with the four washington establishment the other networks covered president obama and governor romney debating whatever right here in our studios we had two very serious candidates talk about very serious issues they were absent elsewhere everywhere they talked about the n.b.a. they talked about drones to talk about the war on drugs and this is something that we put together because not only do we know there was a point but our audience was asking for it we haven't seen it too much of you in the mainstream media do you think tomorrow they will be talking about how you did

impact. the election well that that would be the pie in the sky is that that i would impact the election and let me just give you a chronology of. the libertarian party. you know the fact is you go from an annoyance to a spoiler to a player we really need to be brain third parties fourth parties because parties into that which are blocking traffic was her first marriage right i think female i don't think i feel like this is a win for the american people that we have been able to enter into this race to break into the party and offer the solutions that the american people are clamoring for. more reflections of the age of scorn that throughout the coming days people of ellis gets heard a couple of minutes to cross-talk about the possibility of wars over water maybe sometime in the future frightening for their own i hear next.

to means in this or even for specialists how a voice can produce several sounds it warms to doing is the art of throat singing comes naturally picked up like a language. a language of communicating with nature it said that's where throat singing originates from the unions believe not only animals but also surrounding objects like reverse forests and even stones of souls imitating the sounds maybe. assumes

to capture the power of nature. the. two are special instruments that accompany the singing if gainey says there is even a legend about his instrument a gill it says once there lived a poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous people killed it on the horse was revived as an instrument. those that have suffered a fall is goes on the spirits of the horse came to his dream he said make an instrument from a tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings. and to remember me make an engraving of my head of the instrument he did so i called the instrument again which means come back and this melody and these schumann is called. the.

two boys one of the most famous groups in the republic their next goal is to tour pruitt they say for you are peons it's difficult to pick up and sing so i ask them to teach me r.c. if i can do it. cheerily the senior. cero you share their order that i was sure they can come through and was you take a look. at the but now it is only a moody part of the song and not the actual throat singing which i wouldn't even dare try to repeat. so maybe you have to be born here to be able to sing like this i thought so until i met she looks like it to the knee and i don't even speak their language but she is from japan.

most is too far in mindset from two hundred years ago until scrappy here she's not planning a professional singing career she keeps practicing just because it's become part of her nature. you know we've been. following walking across on pure little dealing with an ever thirsty world maybe is fond of the dramatic term water wars when it comes to describing the future management of global water resources i wonder valued is water today and how dear will it become as countries around the world.